Jurgen Appelo
Agile Management, Software Development, Complexity, Systems Thinking
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Excellent speaker, spoke of approach to complexity like a guy spoke how to pick up a models to his frinds at pub. Minimalistic and effective.
Italian Agile Day 2010
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Jurgen is a writer, speaker, trainer, entrepreneur, illustrator, developer, manager, blogger, reader, dreamer, leader, freethinker, and Dutch guy.
Since 2008 Jurgen writes a very popular blog at www.noop.nl, which deals with development management, software engineering, business improvement, personal development, and complexity theory. He is the author of the book Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders, which describes the role of the manager in agile organizations. He is also a speaker, being regularly invited to talk at business seminars and conferences around the world.
After studying Software Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, and earning his Masters degree in 1994, Jurgen Appelo has busied himself starting up and leading a variety of Dutch businesses, always in the position of team leader, manager, or executive. Jurgen has experience in leading a horde of 100 software developers, development managers, project managers, business consultants, quality managers, service managers, and kangaroos, some of which he hired accidentally.
Being a full-time writer, speaker, and trainer is a great job. But sometimes Jurgen puts it all aside to do some programming himself, or to spend time on his ever-growing collection of science fiction and fantasy literature, which he stacks in a self-designed book case. It is 4 meters high.
Jurgen lives in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) -- and sometimes in Brussels (Belgium) -- with his partner Raoul. He has two kids, and an imaginary hamster called George.
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Excellent speaker, spoke of approach to complexity like a guy spoke how to pick up a models to his frinds at pub. Minimalistic and effective.
Italian Agile Day 2010
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Fascinating style of reaching something in people's brains & hearts: minimalistic but bright visual materials, colorful talk. Full fledged positive reinforcement ;)
Not really cons, but suggestion: it would be great to include examples of ideas implementation in real world environment (not on the Belgium roads of course :) but among our IT crowd!)
AgileEE 2010, Kiev, Ukraine, 8-9 Oct
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Very good presentation, easy to follow and to understand, very flexible in answering questions whenever someone had one. Enriched with a lot of experience and examples.
Zen of Scrum, Braunschweig, Oct 28th 2010
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Scrum basics (roles etc) as well as "advanced" topics (questions from audience and speaker's real life experience).
Also showed what Scrum as a framework lacks and ways to compensate.
Beautiful slides with key points, great presentation.
Zen of Scrum, Braunschweig Oct 28, 2010
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Very good overview of Scrum, filled with lots of experience.
Braunschweig, Germany
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Interesting, fresh presentation with many samples. Very interested on opinions of the audience.
Braunschweig
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First! Good Slides with excellent design. Clear explanation like scrum can function.
Zen of Scrum, Braunschweig, Germany, 28 October
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It was the best presentation at AgileEE for me. Excellent material and presenting skills. Thanks a lot.
Agile EE 2010, Kyiv, Ukraine, 9-10 October Review
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GREAT THANK YOU!
I really enjoyed the presentation - one of the best I attended. It is a pity it was too short and some slides were skipped.
PS Hope you didn't drive in Ukraine :)
Agile EE 2010, Kyiv, Ukraine
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Cognitive view on usual things through read books and own experience have made this speak interesting and exciting.
Liked Belgian's related jokes because driving in Belgian is quite terrible thing, but anyway it safer than in Ukraine.
Agile EE 2010, Kyiv, Ukraine, 9-10 October
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Very useful ideas in a plain and fun way. I don't like boring books and other staff so I really liked it!
AgileEE conference in Kyiv, Ukraine
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Great presentation, the material was good structured and combined with great performance and good sense of humor.
Agile EE 2010, Kyiv, Ukraine, 9-10 October Review
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It was great to enjoy excellent presentation skills as well as interesting view point to ordinary practices. The presentation was impressive, smart and to the point. Can't wait for a book.
Agile EE 2010, Kyiv, Ukraine, 9-10 October
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a very insightful and practical presentation. I tweeted the thoughts I liked most: http://hashtags.org/jurgenappelo
Agile EE 2010
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Thanks for your presentation!
Interesting topics, interesting point of view and good humor. 1,5 hours have passed as 15 minutes!
AgileEE 2010
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Very enjoyable presentation. Thanks for the humour, man! The IT gets dull fast, if we don't have humour.
And of course, good points were made.
Agileee 2010, Kyiv
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Here what I found interesting:
* subsidiarity principle (delegate until it subsidiary has competence to do it)
* broken window (when broken windows are not repaired people have a tendency to break more windows)
* agile manifesto (2002) + addition (2009)
* maturity model for discipline
** competence = skills + discipline
* every team in business network (organization) should produce a business value
Agile EE 2010, Kyiv, Ukraine, 9-10 October
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both funny and helpful lecture
Agileee 2010 conference in Kiev
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One of the best presentations on the conference, and there were many! Jurgen amazed me with his great sense of humor, ability to keep the audience's attention at any time, and great knowledge in many diverse areas
Agileee conference in Kiev, 9 Oct
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Great and well structured presentation. It was one of the best presentations I've ever seen.
AgileEE conference in Kyiv, Ukraine - 9 October 2010
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